Category: War (Sorted by Author's last name)
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy) (2007) - Rick Atkinson (-) (Grade:A)
In the Company of Soldiers : A Chronicle of Combat (2004) - Rick Atkinson (-) (Grade:B)
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (2002) - Rick Atkinson (-) (Grade:A)
 Empire of the Sun (1984) - J. G. Ballard (11/15/1930
-4/19/2009) (Grade:A+)
The Ghost Road (1995) - Pat Barker (5/08/1943
-) (Grade:F)
Civil War Stories () - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (6/24/1842
-1914?) (Grade:B)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (story) (1890) - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (6/24/1842
-1914?) (Grade:B)
The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) - Pierre Boulle (1912-1994) (Grade:A+)
Black Hawk Down : A Story of Modern War (1999) - Mark Bowden (1951
-) (Grade:A+)
Hitler Stopped by Franco (2001) - Burt Boyar (11/30/1927
-04/04/2018) (Grade:A)
Rising Tide: The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines That Fought the Cold War (2003) - Walter J. Boyne (-) (Grade:B+)
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age (2007) - Matthew Brzezinski (-) (Grade:B+)
The Lessons of Terror : A History of Warfare Against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed and Why It Will Fail Again (2002) - Caleb Carr (8/02/1955
-) (Grade:C-)
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1998) - Iris Chang (-) (Grade:A)
Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam (2004) - Paul Clayton (1948-) (Grade:B)
A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II (2003) - Stanley Cloud (-) (Grade:A)
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime (2002) - Eliot A. Cohen (-) (Grade:A-)
Sharpe's Rifles: Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809 (1998) - Bernard Cornwell (1944-) (Grade:A)
The Red Badge of Courage (1895) - Stephen Crane (11/01/1871
-6/05/1900) (Grade:B+)
Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life (2002) - Carlo D'Este (1936-) (Grade:A)
The Rat Patrol (1966) - Norman A. Daniels (06/03/1905-07/19/1995) (Grade:B+)
Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (2004) - Norman Davies (06/08/1939
-) (Grade:A+)
The USA Trilogy: (The 42nd Parallel, 1930; Nineteen Nineteen, 1932; The Big Money, 1936) () - John Dos Passos (1/14/1896
-9/28/1970) (Grade:C)
The Pity of War : Explaining World War I (1998) - Niall Ferguson (-) (Grade:A+)
The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II (2001) - Thomas Fleming (-) (Grade:A+)
Civil War () - Shelby Foote (11/17/1916
-6/27/2005) (Grade:A+)
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1948) - C.S. Forester (8/27/1899
-4/02/1966) (Grade:A)
Cold Mountain (1997) - Charles Frazier (11/04/1950
-) (Grade:C)
Sergeant Lamb's America (1940) - Robert Graves (7/24/1895
-12/07/1985) (Grade:B+)
The Quiet American (1956) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904
-4/03/1991) (Grade:A)
Last Journey: A Father and Son in Wartime (2009) - Darrell Griffin (-) (Grade:A)
The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars? (2000) - Stephanie Gutmann (-) (Grade:B+)
The Bridge at No Gun Ri : A Hidden Chapter from the Korean War (2001) - Charles J. Hanley (-) (Grade:D)
The Soul of Battle : From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny (1999) - Victor Davis Hanson (9/05/1953
-) (Grade:A+)
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002) - Chris Hedges (-) (Grade:C)
Mister Roberts (1946) - Thomas Heggen (-) (Grade:B+)
Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (05/01/1923
-12/12/1999) (Grade:A)
A Bell for Adano (1944) - John Hersey (6/17/1914
-3/24/1993) (Grade:B+)
Hiroshima (1946) - John Hersey (6/17/1914
-3/24/1993) (Grade:B)
War and the Liberal Conscience (Trevelyan Lectures) (1978) - Michael Eliot Howard (11/29/1922-) (Grade:A)
The Thin Red Line (1962) - James Jones (11/06/1921
-5/09/1977) (Grade:C)
The First World War (1998) - John Keegan (-) (Grade:B+)
Martyr's Day: Chronicle of a Small War (1993) - Michael Kelly (-) (Grade:A+)
Schindler's List (1982) - Thomas Keneally (-) (Grade:A)
Fredericksburg : Squandered Courage and Uncertain Allegiance (2004) - Wyatt Kingseed (-) (Grade:B)
The Battle of Marathon (2010) - Peter Krentz (-) (Grade:B)
The Fifty Year Wound: The True Price of America's Cold War Victory (2002) - Derek Leebaert (
-) (Grade:A-)
Vietnam: The Necessary War: Grand Strategy, Domestic Politics, and the American War for Indochina () - Michael Lind (-) (Grade:C)
Day of Infamy (1957) - Walter Lord (1917-) (Grade:A)
June 1941: Hitler and Stalin (2006) - John Lukacs (01/31/1924
-) (Grade:B-)
Eastern Approaches (1949) - Fitzroy Hew Royle MacLean (03/11/1911-06/15/1996) (Grade:A)
The Naked and the Dead (1948) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923
-11/10/2007) (Grade:D)
The Volga Rises in Europe (1951) - Curzio Malaparte (6/09/1898
-7/19/1957) (Grade:C+)
Three War Stories (2013) - David Mamet (11/30/1947-) (Grade:B-)
Strange Victory : Hitler's Conquest of France (2000) - Ernest May (-) (Grade:B+)
Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (2006) - Mark Moyar (5/12/1971
-) (Grade:A+)
1812: A Novel (1997) - David Nevin (-) (Grade:B+)
The Sorrow of War (1991) - Bao Ninh (10/18/1952-) (Grade:C)
H.M.S. Surprise (1973) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914
-01/02/2000) (Grade:A+)
Post Captain (1972) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914
-01/02/2000) (Grade:A+)
A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II (2003) - Lynne Olson (-) (Grade:A)
The English Patient (1992) - Michael Ondaatje (9/12/1943
-) (Grade:C)
The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality (2000) - Richard J. Overy (-) (Grade:A)
Flying Tigers over Cambodia: An American Pilot's Memoir of the 1975 Phnom Penh Airlift (2001) - Larry Partridge (1936-) (Grade:B)
The War in 2020 (1991) - Ralph Peters (1952-) (Grade:C+)
A Time of War (1990) - Michael Peterson (-) (Grade:C+)
Killing Rommel: A Novel (2008) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943
-) (Grade:A+)
Torture and Democracy (2007) - Darius Rejali (-) (Grade:C+)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) - Erich Maria Remarque (6/22/1898
-9/25/1970) (Grade:C)
The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory (1999) - Robert V. Remini (1921-) (Grade:B+)
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006) - Louise Richardson (-) (Grade:C)
The War of the Rats (1999) - David L. Robbins (-) (Grade:C)
The Hunters (1956) - James Salter (6/10/1925
-06/19/2015) (Grade:A)
The Death and Life of Dith Pran (1980) - Sydney H. Schanberg (1/17/ 1934
-7/09/2016) (Grade:C+)
Farewell to the King (1969) - Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928-) (Grade:B)
The Killer Angels (1974) - Michael Shaara (6/23/1928
-5/05/1988) (Grade:A+)
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988) - Neil Sheehan (-) (Grade:C)
A Better War : The Unexamined Victories and the Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam (1999) - Lewis Sorley (1934-) (Grade:A)
The Battle of Salamis : The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization (2004) - Barry Strauss (11/27/1957
-) (Grade:A+)
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (2003) - Anthony Swofford (-) (Grade:A-)
The Nightingale's Song (1995) - Robert Timberg (-) (Grade:B-)
Johnny Got His Gun (1939) - Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) (Grade:F)
Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations (1977) - Michael Walzer (
-) (Grade:D+)
Arguing About War (2004) - Michael Walzer (
-) (Grade:A)
The Return of the Soldier (1918) - Rebecca West (1892-1983) (Grade:A+)
The Last Battle : The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War (2001) - Ralph Wetterhahn (
-) (Grade:A)
Night (1958) - Elie Wiesel (1928-) (Grade:A)
Ride With the Devil [aka : Woe to Live On] (1987) - Daniel Woodrell (-) (Grade:B-)
In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing (2007) - Bob Woodruff (08/18/1961-) (Grade:A)
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